Lee Jae-myung Cries as He Denounces Prosecutors’ Raid of the Opposition Party’s Headquarters
I am not sure what the prosecutors are hoping to find with this raid because you would think any evidence would have long been removed if it existed at all:
An apparently tearful opposition leader Lee Jae-myung cried foul Monday after prosecutors raided the headquarters of his Democratic Party (DP) in a corruption investigation that is zeroing in on him after the arrest of one of his closest aides.
Investigators made their way into the DP headquarters to search the office of Kim Yong, a longtime confidant of Lee, over allegations that he took 847 million won (US$591,000) from property developers in the suburban city of Seongnam in violation of the political fund law.
Kim, who was arrested Saturday, is deputy head of the DP-affiliated Institute for Democracy think tank. It was the second attempt to raid the DP headquarters after an earlier attempt fell through due to protests from party officials.
“The central headquarters building of the opposition party was violated in the middle of a parliamentary audit,” Lee told reporters in front of the party headquarters. “A terrible incident unprecedented in the history of democracy in the Republic of Korea is happening now.”
While speaking, Lee apparently became tearful, looked up at the sky and wiped his eye.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link, but this is just another example of the rule by law in South Korea instead of rule of law. Whatever political party is in power uses the rule by law principle to go after their political enemies and this is just the continuation of this.
While I do not believe tears from any politician, I agree with GI.
However, after arresting Parkdotter and 2MB, they sowed the wind and deserve to reap the whirlwind.
And it won’t stop as long as Koreans keep electing vindictive people
Which could mean they like this sort of thing.
And this fun and games has now come to the US. After the Biden admins political prosecutions, you can bet the other side will do the same.
We Americans have such short memories it’s frustrating. Remember IRS targeting of conservatives under the Obama administrations? It was such a big scandal in the day. Except it wasn’t new even then.
The Reuther memorandum written by a card carrying communist Walter Reuther and socialist Victor G. Reuther in 1961 while working for the Kennedy administration set government policy to specifically target conservative media and organizations for investigation and prosecution.
It called for revocation of organizations’ tax-exempt status. Reuther also suggested the IRS investigate corporations that advertised in right-wing media, contending they were peddling propaganda rather than selling products. The memorandum also said that conservative donors and media personalities should be audited, noting “there is the big question whether [they] are themselves complying with the tax laws.”
Time is a flat circle. We repeat all the same games over and over again and then pretend to be shocked when they happen again.
I remember when Paula Jones (salary around 1000 dollars a month back then) was audited by the IRS. That was pretty blatant.
Crocodile tears by Lee Jail Myung.
I can’t wait for Trump to come back to power. He’s going to put Biden in used diapers.